Knight Refrigerated/Transportation

Amen. That air conditioner ######## would have been a deal breaker for me. If my AC goes out, the only driving I'm going to do is to the nearest Freightliner to get it fixed. If the company doesn't like it, F em.

 

200k to 500k miles are NOT old trucks. May be junk trucks due to shoddy maintenance, but they are nowhere near being old.

 

OP you seem to complain about Volvos more then you do a bad company.

I personally love Volvos. That truck is way underestimated and I think drivers that have an aversion to them just because the name "Volvo" sounds like vulva or the very least like a soccer mom's car.

I have driven several Volvos with 500K on them no problem. I would take a Volvo with 500K before a new Crapcadia or International any day. And yes I am tall and have no problem getting a nights sleep in a VN670. The 670 sleeper is a few inches smaller in volume then the International but is much better engineered. I am never cramped for space, and better engineered storage allows more stuff to be hauled in the a slightly smaller sleeper. The cab of the Volvo is by far better engineered then most other trucks especially the International. Most other manufactures, including International, re-engineered their trucks to be more like the Volvo. International just missed with the crappy vent windows, large blind spots, the overly bright dash lights, the stupid ugly steering wheel buttons used to over compensate for the long reach to dash switches and radio. Don't forget the stupid flip forward bumper, and the fact most Pro-stars are overweight on the front axle before getting loaded. I have drove day cabs Pro-Stars that were over weight before hitching the trailer. The International engine is a bomb, and even the Cummins are less reliable when used by International.

Knight indeed does buy all their equipment; they only started being Internationals after Maxforce fiasco started to unfold. The price of a Pro-Star dropped like a rock and that is when Knight stocked up on them. Since Knight does not lease their trucks, they do not purchase any extended warrantee. You are at the mercy of the low-rent mechanics that all the mega-crap trucking companies hire. These guys are parts changers at best. So the results you experienced should be expected.

If your such a primadona that you feel you should be in a low milage automatic International you now know you should have looked to a mega other then Knight.

 

I have driven for megas in the past. Not a single mega has a 2 year turnaround on their trucks. AVERAGE age is 2 years means for every brand new truck you see there is a 4 year old truck out running.

Full disclosure, I'm currently leased to Schneider, so I guess I drive for a mega now.

 

^^^ Yup, a little simple math seems to evade some people some times.

A place like Knight that buys their trucks is going to have a older truck on the average; they have to recoup the purchase costs.

I don't get so why so many primadonas show up to a mega and think they deserve a new truck of their choice; it is not like their is a driver shortage and their some one special.

 

Most is not all. And the 2017s have been out for about 4 months already.

 

I was interested in Knight starting out awhile back but not anymore. They seem to dump their money into the terminals making them fancy and new they don't give a #### about the trucks. The only people who get new or decent trucks are the little guy's and lil dawgs and sinisters the youtube celebrities. Oh by the way little guy released a new video stating if you can't get something done and need to get to the higher ups contact him lol

 

First of all a truck with 200,000 miles on it it's not an old truck...